Ace_finland
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Not a bad idea kleptobot! But i won't change it anymore, got the spindle from uk (ebay)
Back with another update.
Was thinking for a while on how to power the leds for the case. From experience in the last mod i did i saw better light spread with more leds and less intensity so i've decided to put quite a few leds in it and using a fan controller to adjust the intensity/brightness of them. I've seen others using the internal USB header but they won't supply enough power and the last thing i want to do is fry something. After doing some measurements i found out that the internal and external power supply is linked together, meaning as soon as i plug in the external power supply there's a constant 19V dc. From here i will use an 7812 voltage regulator to get the voltage down to 12V which i will feed into the fan controller to be adjustable all the way down to 0V.
The 7812 Voltage controller. Now i realize this photo wasn't the best for scale
Was so into the electronics i forgot to take more photos. But here its all done, tried to do some sleeving on it but was quite tricky when everything is soldered together. And the legs are painted
had to leave the last bit of the led connection un-sleeved so it would flex enoughThe metal plate which has a bit of copper on it is the wireless antennas i took from the original nuc case, did not want to ruin them before i have tested that everything works
The nuc installed
On the left side you can see the 7812 Voltage regulator and kinda get a size on it, its tiny!
Plugged in but not powered on, testing that everything works, no smoke!
Added some leds to the lid, first thought was to glue them in the bottom of the case but seemed a lot easier to put them in the lid
Soldering together all the strips
more coming soon!
